Every Fright Night Movie Explored An Insanely Brutal 80s Masterpiece That Still Stands Tall
Vampires almost disappeared from the mainstream for quite some time. Though there had been some adaptations from Stephen King s Salem s Lot producing a miniseries in the early 1980s, there were hardly any vampire films after the Hammer horror films of the 60s and 70s. Fright Night, released in 1985, had just the right timing for a vampire horror movie, by reintroducing vampires to the horror genre just the way Scream reintroduced slashers. This Tom Holland film was highly successful, as it became the secondhighestgrossing horror film of 1985, spawning a sequel in 1988, a reboot in 2011, and yet another inspired version in 2013 with a false identity of a remake of the 1988 sequel. The original Fright Night is a cult classic, with horrors and the practical effects of the 80s that make it impeccable. The debutant director defined the vampire story in a different format altogether, presenting a new outlook, What if someone finds
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